 Hello, everyone. Hopefully you're enjoying KubeCon. Today is the last day of KubeCon, technically day three. There's been over 12,000 of you participating in a variety of fun cloud-native activities this week. I don't know about you, but it's been a pretty crazy, fun, but also tiring week. I was a little bit worried doing the keynote today because my voice was pretty much shot last night. But luckily, I have enough voice left to close this out today. So it's been just amazing to see everyone. I hope some of the changes we made this year were exciting for you all. I personally, my favorite part was the project pavilion that we had set up in the middle of the stage and meeting all the maintainers and projects. This has been great. So I hope that's been good out, been going well for everyone. We're going to keep that set up for future KubeCon. So before we go on with today, this is the 20th KubeCon, cloud-native con, that we've put together. So we've done a few of these. And I think it's always kind of fun as we kind of reminisce. This is the 10th year anniversary of Kubernetes. So let's do a little trip down memory lane if we can. So let's do a little history here. A lot of you that have been involved with the project for a while know that it's been 10 years. But in June 7th, 2014, Google open sourced Kubernetes. It's great. It's a good thing to do, in my opinion. In, at Oskon in July in 2015, there was, you know, Oskon's a small little, nice little open source conference out in Portland. You know, Google, Linux foundation got on stage and basically announced, hey, Kubernetes hits 1.0. We are going to contribute this code base to a foundation and truly build a fully open, multi-vendor open source, neutral community. This was also the time that, you know, I ended up joining the organization to kind of help build and start CNCF as employee zero, essentially. Later, the community continued to grow. We held our first KubeCon in San Francisco, November 9th, 2015. Special thank you to Joseph Jax to start that whole event. And it was pretty small. It was, you know, a few hundred people at most, very, very, very kind of small event. So we're still in the 2015, you know, era here. We finally got our stuff together and, you know, officially, you know, formed the CNCF, got the legal entity set up. We hosted our first board meetings. This was in December, 2015. For those of you who want a little bit of trivia, it was actually hosted in the New York Times office. And it was only about, I would say, two handfuls of companies, maybe about 15 to 20 individuals when we started. So very, very kind of humble beginnings, in my opinion. 2019, a lot of stuff has happened. Our community started to grow. We could only do so many KubeCons a year. We created the KCD programs, our Kubernetes community days. And our first KCD was held in Amsterdam, I think, in 2019. And this has grown to basically, you know, I think we've done over 50 of them in partnership with our community. It's been incredible to kind of see KCDs grow all over the world. So thank you for anyone who has participated in this program and helped us push these along. We also have a lot of meetups in the world. So we also formed our cloud-aided community groups as a way to kind of formalize and structure meetups of the world. And we've done, you know, thousands of these. And thank you all who have kind of been participating in this to truly spread cloud-aided knowledge to where your community exists. So in kind of a condensed timeline fashion, Kubernetes is gonna go turn 10 later this year in June 7th, 2024, since the first commit. And for those of you who have been in open source, 10 years in open source, it's kind of like dog years. It's a freaking lifetime in some ways. So a lot has changed in those 10 years, but it is an important thing to kind of celebrate. And remember, I love throwing like a little party here and there. So what we're going to do is we want all of you to celebrate Kubernetes turning 10 this year with us. And if you go to Kuber10ys, which is the official, you know, I guess, hashtag or slogan of the event, .cncf.io, we're gonna be throwing a party at kind of that original office over at Google where kind of Kubernetes started out, but we're gonna invite all y'all in the community through parties all over the world and we'll support you in that endeavor. So please go to kuber10ys.cncf.io and apply and help us celebrate later this year. So it's gonna be fun. All right, so Kubernetes today, it is truly one of the most active and largest open source projects out there behind Linux. I don't wanna pull up all the full statistics, but you know, it's 38, 4, 656, I think, releases, we have also one of the largest slacks in the world with nearly 200,000 people on that Kubernetes Slack. Special thank you to all the Slack admins, both emeritus and folks that continue to keep that place welcoming, inclusive and functional. You know, we have tons of certified Kubernetes distributions, service providers that support people and companies adopting Kubernetes all over the world and it's just an incredible, and we've over 200,000 certified Kubernetes administrators out there in the world. So it's truly an incredibly massive projects. It's never too late to kind of get started with contributing and one of the whole things that my team and I were thinking about, how do we kind of close things off is, well, we all got our journey started with Kubernetes in all different ways. So we created this little app that basically wanted to highlight, what was your first contribution to Kubernetes? And if you kind of go look at these, you have folks like, I think, Nikita did a improved documentation, improved contributing instructions. We had Don Chen, I think, improve the build script in Kubernetes. George Castro tried to, I think, add snap package support to Kubernetes back in the day. Tim, I think did some, a minor doc improvement. There are many ways to kind of get started and you don't have to be a very crazy coder. You could open up an issue with a problem, you could fix documentation, you could do a translation, you could host an event. These are all very, very valid contributions and I want all of you to kind of today, potentially reflect on your first contribution to Kubernetes. So if we could probably do this live, because why not? It's always adds a little bit spice to keynotes, but if you all go to this site right now and if you have a contribution to Kubernetes and you'll enter your GitHub handle and then you'll be able to tweet it out and share it. So it looks like my first contribution to Kubernetes was unfortunately setting up the legal and governance structure and moving from the Google CLA to the CNCF CLA, which is definitely super important. And then let's go tweet that out, so perfect. So hopefully I'll take time to kind of reflect on how you got started in the Kubernetes community and know that there are many, many people in this room willing to support you in any way and let's go continue to grow sexually, which is one of the most successful and important open source projects in our time. So and thank you for everyone who's been contributing over the years. So check it out, share, and hopefully we'll see you at one of our parties this year celebrating Kubernetes 10th. So to kind of wrap up today's opening, couple final announcements today. So one thing is we've been investing a lot in education, training, one of the biggest complaints that we get from the CNCF from companies that are trying to migrate to cloud native and use cloud native is like, we need to be able to hire people, we need to find people. Can you please recommend and refer folks? So we've been investing a lot in the last handful of years of improving our certifications, providing more free training and so on. And one thing that's kind of been missing is, we have an incredible community of folks that come here and participate. We have a wonderful set of ambassadors that I see kind of sitting in front of me that have guided and helped us as an organization. But what we really haven't had is essentially education ambassadors, training ambassadors. So this year, we're gonna be announcing a new program today which we're gonna be deeming called Hubestronauts, which are essentially our education ambassadors who have taken every Kubernetes-related certification and passed them. And we're gonna basically work with them to improve all of our stuff for education, training, and certification for the community, using the community to provide a lot more input for us. So I wanna thank some of the folks that have been instrumental in kind of piloting this. We have some of them, they all get blue jackets because that's what we do here. And maybe we can kind of have some of them stand up and thank them for all their amazing work and look forward to our collaboration. So let's see if we can spotlight these folks, stand up and get some light. And thank you, thank you for all your work. Thanks all. We'll eventually find space helmets for all y'all but couldn't source them in time. So thank you, thank you. The other thing that we're done is, the doing is we're expanding our Kubernetes training partner program to kind of include more training companies and so on. So we have a partnership with Udemy, essentially that we're launching what we call a CNCF endorsed content program. So basically all this means is any training or certification that is actually written by a maintainer or ambassador is gonna be featured and highlighted through all these different training distributors out there. So that's something we're very excited to go pilot out with Udemy and the Linux Foundation training team. So without wasting a little bit more too much time, running an event like this is a lot of work. If you don't know CNCF, we're about 50 or so people that kind of work really hard behind the scenes to put these shows on. And given that we've gotten so large, we have to plan in advance a little bit more. So we are now planning two years ahead in advance for KubeConz and I'm happy to kind of share some of the locations we will be appearing in the next couple of years. So next year for KubeCon, client of Con Europe is gonna be in London. London's a lovely city. I hope the weather treats us well, you know, there. In North America, we're gonna be Atlanta, which is an awesome Southern southeastern city. So I'm very excited to head out there next year. And then like I said, we're planning two years out. So we're gonna be for the first time going back, we're gonna be going back to Amsterdam in 2026. I know some of you said that was probably your favorite KubeCon due to the convention center. It was very like well lit and very nice, lots of fresh sunshine. So we're gonna be back there in 2026. And then of course in back in North America, we will be in LA October 26 or 29. So please block your calendars. We have to now plan a little bit more in advance now. So hope to see all y'all in these events. And of course we'll have other KubeConz throughout the world that will now. So to kind of wrap things up, enjoy your last day here. Next KubeCon is gonna be up in North America in Salt Lake City, we'd love to see here. For all the folks that are looking potentially to become a Kube Stronaut, like our blue jacket friends over there, there's a training discount code KCE24 that you could use. Check out contribcard.dev to highlight your first contribution to Kubernetes. And then we're gonna be throwing some fun parties later this year in June. So please join us there. And thank you all for continually to show up at these events and supporting the cloud native community. So thank you very much and we'll see you next time.